Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-08

a week at his home in Mineral Point
and will take in the fair while there.
Fred Burr got home Saturday night. |
The run from Fort Howard to Ishpem-
ing is one of tho hardest in this district
A car stocked full of mail every day.
Fred managed to surround il though
There is no need of a fly trap in his
immediate vicinity.
The Montfort HERALDs were reported
missing last Thursday. They were
mailed all right and if they went astray
it was Uncle Sans fault-or Bill
Vilas's.
George Edwards, Sem, has sold his
house and lots in the southeastern part
of the city to Mr.. Turk, for consider
alton of S400. Mr. Edwards intends
to purchase the place where he now re-
sides of Mrs. Elizabeth Barber in the
northeastern part of the city.
Last Wednesday Mrs. Pengilly re-
ceived dispatch that her brother, r.
S. Bowden, of West Salem, La Crosse
Co., was dangerously i'll. She took
the train Immediately, but did not
reach him in time to see him alive.
MIR. Pengilly went on the following day
and they returned Saturday evening.
1t was reported that it was their son
Will to whose bedside they were sum-
moned. viii is enjoying excellent
health and is employed in the Diamond
10 office at La Crosse.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wright, SEN,
went over to Dubuque last Saturday
and took boat up the river to Still
Water, Mimi, where they will spend
two or three weeks with their daughter
Mrs. Robert Snowden.
Stone & Hassell advertise school
books this week.
We make some typographical errors,
but,we always try to spell bicycle with
an !. Whose treat is it now?
j. Simon has opened up in the Clark
building next to the post office with
full stock of goods. AS he has rented
for year he will be. like the rest,
taxpayer here. All business mon who
do an honorable business in an honor
uble way are entitled to all the success
they can make for themselves. Com
pitition is the life of trade.
Lancaster is the place to buy goods.
Goods of all kinds are selling cheaper
here now than ever before since the
war
Mrs. M. j. Adams, who for several
years past has been laborng as ho me
missionary among the colored people
of the south, spoke at the Congregation
al church Monday evening, and again
met those interested at the church
Tuesday afternoon. Her field of labor
was first at Montgomery, Ala, but
now and for some time past at Austin,
Tex. She is jealous and noble wom-
an andi doing good work. She is
trying to enlist the sympathy of the
churches in the christian education of
the Negro an dit is subject well worthy
of their attention
The Grant County Fair is one of the
best managed in the state. Everything
is being done to put the grounds and
buildings in first class shape aud moth
ing but bad weather can prevent the
fair of 1887 from being the best ever held
in Grant County.
We would respectfully call the at.
tention of the health officer and
other city authorities to the fact that
there are some pretty loud odors about
town that should be attended to at
once.
The Milwaukee teachers and Uni
versity students have returned to their
labors. Miss Mamie Book and Mr..
George Baxter returned to Madison
last week. Miss Mabel Bushnell went
up this week to take her examination
for admission.
Mr. G. w. Loney of Fennimore was
in town Tuesday
Hiram Sherman has gone up 10 the
northern part of the state looking for
work.
Conrad Wenzel has finished off the
front part ofhis shop and put in shelv-
ing. He will open up stock of boots
and shoes soon.
Farmers will find some excellent read
ing on our first page this week. The
question of feed is particularly inter-
esting this fall.
The excellent fall pastures will do
much towards compromising for the
short hay crop.